Grabbing the thick wheel handle Jacob strenuously turned it open.
Pulling it open slowly a small gap was opened and Otto squeezed through to find spiral stairs leading further down.
Peeking down Otto spotted a thin lizard with a 3 meter long body like a snake and green scales, black talons, a fin like tail which waved around in the air, long worm like whiskers same as a beast cat fish, round eyes with yellow honey color, a long snout with short sharp teeth.
Infront of the creature were 4 black cages 3 with already dead beasts.
The fourth cage had a young petite girl with a purple dress and dark bob cut hair a grimoire open infront of her, and the cage door was locked and the key hole was frozen with ice.
Ping!
Type: Pre- calamity beast
Name: Short limb snake
Level: 8
Element: wind
Otto was stunned to see that the butcher actually managed to nab a level 8 beast and sneak such a dangerous creature into the village.
While he was still peeking the snake beast opened its mouth
'Wohh! Wohh! Wohh! Wohh!'
A green ball of wind formed inside it's mouth and blasted out toward the girl inside the cage. "Darn you stupid lizard triple water shield," she shouted.
Her grimoire had a blue core that lit up in water blue color and 3 blue shields formed in front of her and the green ball of wind hit all three at once and the girl holding a bronze shield necklace made it expand and block the remaining blast.
Boom! Crack!
The shield cracked on impact as she catapulted and crashed on the bars behind her with her back coughing up blood.
She laid down dazed and as she looked up and made eye contact with Otto, renewed vigor entered her dim eyes full of despair, as if seeing someone she knew her eyes sparkled seeing the handsome face and she tried to speak "Ah save…"
Otto gave her a death stare signalling her to shut up quickly.
She was indeed one of the people that became logical when in danger or she was just given a fright by Otto's frightful face so she shut up.
Seeing the girl act weird the snake looked back-up at the entrance but saw nothing out of the ordinary and it appeared the door was still locked, but it had to kill this weak human that tried to take its life with underhanded tactics.
Gazing carefully at the human the snake began to charge up another wind shot, to torturously drain the stamina and mana of the human as it seemed its plan was beginning to work seeing the coughed up blood and give her a killing blow.
At the same time Otto knew that in order to make it out alive he had to use large amount of his unique rank mana he studied yesterday night while training.
His grimoire had allowed him to perfectly fuse his elements which broke the limits of humans who proved that having multiple elemental veins has the limitation of using one element at a time, but his grimoire had made a vein that perfectly fused all his elemental veins making far more powerful mana.
The mana also did not inhibit him from using one element at a time granted he used an enchanted weapon like skulls flaming heart, a fire type weapon. By injecting small doses of his {Unique} mana , it would not burden him and his weapon's enchantment circle but activated the flaming enchantment ability with no hitch.
When using large amounts of mana that is when his 'Chaos mana' would overwhelm the enchantment and shroud the weapon in chaos mana and not flames anymore creating abnormal sharpness and otherworldly power.
At the same time shortening the life of the enchantment to skulls flaming heart.
But still with this change to his mana he still felt he is just scratching the surface, and wished to train and know more about it.
'With my chaos stem mana I'm sure a sneak attack is enough to kill it in one blow as its guard is down.' Thought Otto checking his status.
And transferred his 6 attribute points to mana.
8 Grimm stat points were divided among strength, intelligence and agility.
'Huuu,' breathing out slowly he waited as his heart beat slowed down and his aura and presence disappeared.
'Vwa! Vwa! Vwa! Vwa!" the snake then released the wind ball leaving it's neck wide exposed only to feel a light tap on it's heads' scales
"Sinful-Chaos mana stab,"
But Otto had underestimated an enemy 6 levels above him because as soon as the snake felt the tip of the claymore it used unimaginable wind attribute mana together with its reflexes and dodged the blade stab attack by a hairs breath.
Shiing! Puk! Splat!
Runny red blood sprayed itself onto the stone floor together with an eyeball sliced in half.
"Kiieek! Ssss!" the snake madly retreated with its hind legs, still disoriented and in shock from an instant assault to its eye.
Otto did not give the lizard anytime to rest seeing its disoriented state he used this opportunity to immediately bolted forward both hands on his claymore delivering another attack shifting the momentum to his favor.
'Fire attribute vertical slash,'
He had no choice but to use normal fire attribute because using chaos mana even though powerful drained a lot stamina.
Sensing danger the lizard slithered into the air haphazardly, its fin like tail acting as a steering helping it to avoid another blow to its vitals.
'Crap it opted to fly into the air how deceitful. It has no wings though, such cunning behavior like the snake it is,' thought Otto with a dejected expression because aerial combat was not his strong suit.
After a moment the creature regained its composure but the throbbing pain on it's right eye due to its negligence to its surroundings angered it immensely. Having learned a lesson by itself to never do such a silly mistake again anger filled its heart.
The thick blood lust emitted from it's green scales drove it to madness, it wanted to rip the sneaky bastard that dared to not have a fair fight but choose to make a sneak attack despite its strength to almost kill it with one blow even though it had always done the same In the wilderness.
Staring down at the small sized human below it, it did not sense a dangerous energy like when it got attacked, casting an observant gaze it saw its blood on the long blade of the human boy.
Who was even weaker than the female that hid in the black cage for protection in levels. The lizard snake felt an uncontrollable hatred brewing in its gut far more greater than the hate it felt for those that caught it and confined it to a cage to be sacrificed to a small weak human.
It felt ashamed for being harmed and even running away from a brat weaker than itself a moment ago.
"Ssss, keek!" a burst of green elemental aura burst from its body, the small room became extremely windy.
Otto seeing such a scene remained calm he started meditating absorbing mana back to his body and his high vitality made it easier to stabilize the newly absorbed energy.
His green hair and cloak fluttered in the air but his purple eyes held a piercing killing intent.
'How do I kill it now?' he thought as the lizard waving it's fins started charging up for another wind shot.
"Vwa! Vwa! Vwa! Vwa!"
Zoom!
A green ball of air shot straight for Otto's head.
With breakneck speed, he jumped to the side.
Woosh!
Bang!
The ground concaved creating a deep crater.
"Ssss, kiekkks," the lizard came flying to the side of Otto with an even faster speed than its blast, its jaws wide open prepared to take a mouthful chomp of flesh with it's razor sharp teeth.
"Crap!" Otto hurriedly blocked with his claymore and got sent flying due to the recoil of clashing with the beast teeth.
Boom!
"Kuek!" Rolling and dragging on the stone floor Otto hit the wall with his face first then laid unmoving as he appeared unconscious.
The snake beast was overjoyed at finally landing a blow to the weak human and charged up again, wanting to personally shred the human into a 100 pieces and gobble him up to vent its frustrations and appease Its embarrassment of being toyed with by humans.
"Hey, damn it! Otto get up or you are going to die, Ottooo," screamed the young lady as she cried, tears flowing endlessly down her cheeks like a stream.
"Ssss, kiieek," hearing the cries if the girl it got excited and slithering over in a mad frenzy it extended its talons and opened its jaws wide to finish off the incapacitated human boy and in the back of its mind thinking of ways of how it's going to also devour the weak human girl after torturing her with a full stomach.
Less than a 15 centimeters away it felt a blade go right through. It's bloody eye.
"Chaotic mana basic stab,"
Pchup!
The sword pierced right through its skull from the previously injured eye and blood sprayed out from the gaping wound.
"Ssss…" it died instantly with anger and anguish mixed with an unwillingness of death.
"Haa…ha..ha..haa got you," said Otto his whole body fatigued from using his chaos mana twice in a row which is also his limit.
His cloak he wore lit up, which had protected his bones from breaking and him suffering severe injuries from the crash.
Realizing this Otto remembered that this cloak was given to him by a legendary inventor taking his opinion of being an inventor a little higher.
"Thanks to this I would not have been intact if I took that attack with no protective gear, thank you Lukas," said Otto silently as his plan to lay still pretending to be severely injured and unconscious and slowing down his heart due to meditation ability to land a killing blow.
Thanks for crying Carla," he said giving a thumbs up to the young lady then fell down and collapsed from exhaustion.
Ping!
You have killed level 8 Short limbed Snake
Gene exp gained 1789
You have Leveled up
You have Leveled up
His world went dark.
Riiip!
Immediately after Otto collapsed a rapier slashed open the space with a purple hue and Lieutenant Gavin with his dark hair and scar walked out.
"This kid managed to defeat this beast that was at a higher level with just pure mana indeed his class is extraordinary," he said with a smile then walked towards the petite girl dissolved the ice and led her out.
Grabbed Otto and put him on his shoulders and walked back into the space tear and appeared up stairs next to Jacob who had a worried expression looking at the metal iron door.
"Be at ease your daughter is fine," Gavin walking out the portal behind Jacob.
"The boy saved her and now take him to rest he will be fine by tonight, take care of him. I don't know how you brought such a dangerous beast in here but as punishment you will have to take care of this boys uncle as he leaves for the military for 5 years." Said Gavin with a smile.
A sour expression appeared on Jacob's expression and he wondered if this Lord of his was present since the very beginning of his conversation with the young boy but he dared not refute and only nodded as he anxiously,
Came closer to his daughter and hugged her but was slapped away, " Damn, you daddy you left me in there to be lizard snacks if it wasn't for that boy I would have been dead." Said the girl angrily as her round face flared red with anger to her good for nothing father.
But once she gazed at the boy that saved her a soft expression formed on her eyes with tenderness that even surprised both Gavin and the father Jacob.
"Damn brat I have to take care of his lunatic uncle and he takes my daughter too what is this?" he thought.
"Daddy you have to help Otto if you don't I will hate you times infinity," said Carla hurriedly.
"Sigh…this girl. Even if you did not say anything I already made a deal to take care of his uncle, if he saved you there is nothing to be all angered about," said Jacob looking at his little girl.
Inwardly flabbergasted at his daughters behavior 'This girl has she fallen for this rascal before I knew it? But since when? Even when he delivered meat all these years she at first just greeted him and took the beef off his hands but after an unexpected incident she refused to see him and went to live with her mother for a while saying she is going for training but came recently to take the Grimm test,' he thought.
"Really that is great," said Carla skipping up and down clapping her hands.
Nodding his head, Gavin said "Since it is like that I will bring the man here, let the boy rest here till the day of departure and use that hidden room to place his uncle inside that should be a perfect spot for him,"
Without wasting time they began fixing up the place and Lieutenant Gavin helped out with moving Otto's uncle into his new place.
After sometime Otto woke up in a cozy room and a bed covered with a wet cool cloth on his forehead he, looked outside to find that it was already dark.
The room had a wooden interior floor and roof , with a small table and lamp with a fire type beast core inside it and one open window allowing a cool scented night breeze to disperse in the room.
Far better living conditions than Otto has ever been in.
"Shot uncle he hasn't eaten yet and it's night how long have I been out of it, chaotic mana really takes a toll out of me," said Otto getting up.
Click!
The door opened and a girl walked inside with a purple dress, dark eyes and short bob cut dark hair.
She was petite with cherry red lips and round face and close-set eyes with a short sharp nose.
"Ah! your awake!" She said walking forward but stopped abruptly while hesitate and lost on what to do next but then.
She curtsied and bowed to Otto, " Thank you for saving me back there," she said with closed eyes her posture showing a well trained young lady.
Having a clear look Otto realized this was the girls he saw back at the test with the purple grimoire before he got his black one and also his old childhood acquaintance Carla who went away to the city to see her mother for some years now.
"Ah no problem really but can I go now Carla, there is someone I have to take care of, and help me In getting some bread and milk. I have some pig beast beef to batter." Said Otto taking out his grimoire about to open it up.
Carla gave a wide eyed expression thinking, 'The first thing he thinks about is his family when he wakes up, he is still a kind and filial man, and his handsome face has gotten more attractive the last time I saw him,' She thought staring at Otto's handsome face in a daze.
A deep red blush covered her nose to her ears causing her to shake her head.
She then straightened up her back and held her hands together giving a bright smile, " Don't worry about it father will be taking care of your uncle, as we speak he is already put in a safe place is already feed and sleeping," said Carla.
Hearing this a relived expression surfaced on Otto's face and he took out his grimoire.
"I also have a delivery for your father and I hope too give him some coins I saved up to help him take care of uncle, "Said Otto taking out a late bag filled with copper and silver coins.
100 copper is equivalent to 1 silver and 50 silver is equivalent to 1 gold coins.
Otto had a total of 10 silver an amount enough to feed a family of 3 for a year or 2 if spent sparingly.
Again Carla's mouth made an 'O' from shock such a peasant boy making this much money really shows how hard he has worked.
She instantly shook her head, "No please we can trade the meat but keep the money and buy yourself something for your half year training trip, daddy made a promise to take care of your uncle are you undermining his capabilities." Said Carla with a pout looking cute.
Scratching his head Otto had no choice but to keep the money and Carla smiled back to show her appreciation and offered to trade for the meat immediately giving him 2 silvers in exchange.
Afterward Carla offered him some food and Otto gladly accepted, he then went outside to train and did not go to see his uncle not wanting to disturb his rest.
"I only have a few days left before the trip begins if I can finish the completion skills for all my skill by that time I'm sure it will be much easier for me during my trip." Said Otto hurrying over to the outskirts of the village the empty grass field to begin his training once again.
Checking his status again
[Status]
Name: Otto Alarick
Hybrid species: Human[??]
Heart vein: Sinful sages infant chaos stem
Class: {Unknown}Mana martial arts
Career: None
Level: 5
Title: Grimm Beginner
Class title: First Path sinful sage apprentice
Cores: none
Core skills: none
Class skills: {Legendary Tier 0-} Claymore sinful combo branch blade arts
Abilities: {Rare tier 0+} Meditation
Gene exp: 470
Attribute points: 4
Grimm stat points: 7
ATTRIBUTES
Health: 30/30
Mana: 76/76
Stamina: 34/34
STATS
Strength: 42/42
Agility: 34/34
Intuition: 38/38
Vitality: 21/21
Intelligence: 19/19
Will power: 34/34
Defense: 23/23
Passive skills
{Unique tier 0+} Flame resistance
{Rare tier 0-} Radiation resistance
Active skills
{Legendary tier 0-} Claymore sinful combo branch blade arts
*List of Claymore sinful combo branch blade*
Basic stab
[Completion rate 33%]
Basic Horizontal slash
[Completion rate 29%]
Basic vertical slash
[Completion rate 40%]
Basic Diagonal slash
[Completion rate 37%]
Class items: {Unknown}
[Item slots]
He realized he was lacking behind on some stats and far ahead on some other stats.
"I need to balance my stats out like vitality to avoid collapsing from over using my chaos mana," said Otto
Taking out his sword and leftover potions from Lukas he planned to use them to balance himself up in the next few days of training.
And thus began the preparation for the lawless island journey.